Named on the memorial is Private M2/079419 Henry COWE, Army Service Corps, Motor Transport, 1st Division.
Born 8th December 1893 Kedslie, Melrose. Parents William and Euphemia of Muirhouse, Stow.
Applied for police service, at this time he was living at Todrig, Greenlaw, Berwickshire, occupation gardener, single man, 5'10 in height.
Appointed to Northumberland County Constabulary 19th July 1913 as PC201, 3rd class constable.
19.7.1913 - 2.9.1913 HQ Morpeth (Training)
3.9.1913 Posted Whitley Bay
28.2.1914 He requested that he be allowed to resign, in a report he stated that Whitley Bay was too quiet for him, he told his sergeant that he was going to join the Metropolitan Police. The local superintendent asked Cowe's sergeant to try and talk him out of resigning and it appears to have worked as he was transferred to Ashington on 23.3.1914.
22.3.1915 Resigned to join HMF, enlisted at Coventry as a motor driver ASC and sent to Grove Park for training.
7.5.1915 Embarked Southampton on SS St Petersbourg
8.5.1915 Landed Rouen, France and on the 21st May posted to 319 MT Coy
11.6.1915 To Field Ambulance, no details recorded.
2.8.1915 Posted to Base MT Depot
25.9.1915 Posted 1st Division
Had three periods of leave in UK and granted 1st GC badge 27.4.1917
22.6.1918 To 22 CCS suffering from broncho pneumonia contracted on army service.
30.6.1918 Died at 3pm, he had been ill for 8 days and suffered pains in his back, legs and head. Buried Pernes British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Grave reference V D 9
His mother received a pension of 4/- from the army
His name is recorded on Northumberland County Constabulary and Stow war memorials.

OLIVER, ISABELLA
Isabella McRobert Oliver – age 19 – Private (W/76105) Auxiliary Territorial Service.
A camp for French refugees from Normandy was set up at Sompting near Worthing in Sussex and staffed by the ATS. The southern end of the camp was bounded by the railway line and was hit by a high explosive bomb on the 28 May 1944. A number of ATS women were killed and others injured.
(Source: Westsussex.gov, GRO – Death Index and family grave in Stow Cemetery, Midlothian)
Born 1924 in Annan, Dumfriesshire as Isabella McRobert. Daughter of Esther Smith (McRobert) Oliver and step-daughter of William Scott Oliver of Lockerbie who had married in 1932 in Edinburgh.
Killed by enemy action on 28 May 1944 and buried in Stow Cemetery, Midlothian. (CWG)_________________Ken

TPR. W. D. LINTON, 2nd LIFE GUARDS.
Not listed by CWGC but under review.
Walter Dodds Linton – age 27 – Trooper (3245) Reserve Household Battalion, Life Guards.
Walter had been a booking clerk with the North British Railway Company and was a parcel porter at Waverley Station in Edinburgh when he enlisted in July 1917. He was at Windsor when he became ill and he was in the Cavalry Hospital Detention Rooms when he drowned while taking a bath.
Born 1890 at Cathaugh in Kirkhope, Selkirkshire. Son of David and Margaret (Dodds) Linton of Spences's Buildings, Stow, Midlothian.
Died on Service on 19 December 1917.
Burial place not yet known.
Also named on the Ettrickbridge War Memorial in Kirkhope Parish Church._________________Ken

PTE. ROBERT FRIER. King's Own Scottish Borderers
Robert Frier – age 34 – Private (201541) 1/4th (Border) Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
In 1901 Robert was cycle engineer in Galashiels. He enlisted in the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars in January 1902 and joined the15th King's Hussars in India in January 1903. He returned to the UK in November 1909 and transferred to the Army Reserves in January 1910. He became a postman in December 1910 and was working in Stow, Midlothian, but no longer a reservist, when he enlisted. He joined his battalion in Egypt as Private (8650) and served in Palestine where he was killed.
Born 1882 in Galashiels. Son of James and Jane (Brownlee) Frier of 10 Hall Street, Galashiels. Husband of Christina Binnie (Mann) Frier of Stow Brae, Stow, Midlothian who he married in 1914 in Stow.
Missing in Action on 18 April 1917 and named on the Jerusalem Memorial, Israel._________________Ken